Dora Lee Jones was a domestic worker in early 20th-century New York City. She helped to found a Domestic Workers' Union in Harlem in 1934.
The Domestic Workers' Union was started by a group of Finns and a few African-Americans in California, who saw the necessity for a fight against the exploitation of Negro domestics.
Creating the Domestic Workers' Union was a step towards trying to erase domestic slavery. The Union members helped send out letters to the ministers of the African-American churches where these habitués
of the "slave mart" (African-American domestic workers) attended and
urged them to impress upon these women the direct harm they do to
themselves and others by going to these slave marts, and accepting the
low wages that these heartless employers offer them.
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